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Algorithm for determining the statistical properties of cloud particles...
An algorithm is described for inverting individual particle properties from statistics of ensemble observations, thereby dispelling the notion that coincident particles create...- publication PDF
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The responses of ionospheric topside diffusive fluxes to two geomagnetic...
O⺠field-aligned ambipolar diffusive velocities Vd and fluxes Фd in the topside ionosphere have been calculated from the observed profiles of electron density, ion, and...- publication PDF
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Coping with climate variability and climate change in La Ceiba, Honduras
La Ceiba, Honduras, a city of about 200,000 people, lies along the Caribbean Sea, nestled against a mountain range and the Rio Cangrejal. The city faces three flooding risks:...- publication PDF
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Using TES retrievals to investigate PAN in North American biomass burning plumes
Peroxyacyl nitrate (PAN) is a critical atmospheric reservoir for nitrogen oxide radicals, and plays a lead role in their redistribution in the troposphere. We analyze new...- publication PDF
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Assessing evidence for weather regimes governing solar power generation in Kuwait
With electricity representing around 20% of the global energy demand, and increasing support for renewable sources of electricity, there is also an escalating need to improve...- publication PDF
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Trestles: A high-productivity HPC system targeted to modest-scale and gateway users
Trestles is a new 100TF HPC resource at SDSC designed to enhance scientific productivity for modest-scale and gateway users within the TeraGrid. This paper discusses the...- publication PDF
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Airborne measurement of OH reactivity during INTEX-B
The measurement of OH reactivity, the inverse of the OH lifetime, provides a powerful tool to investigate atmospheric photochemistry. A new airborne OH reactivity instrument was...- publication PDF
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Editorial: Tropical cyclone intensity and structure changes: Theories,...
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An evaluation of snow initializations in NCEP global and regional forecasting models
Snow plays a major role in land-atmosphere interactions, but strong spatial heterogeneity in snow depth (SD) and snow water equivalent (SWE) makes it challenging to evaluate...- publication PDF
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Improving the accuracy of estimation of climate extremes
Workshop on Metrics and Methodologies of Estimation of Extreme Climate Events; Paris, France, 27â29 September 2010; Climate projections point toward more frequent and intense...- publication PDF
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Parallel implementation and computational analysis of the multi-resolution...
We design and implement a parallel version of the multi-resolution approximation (MRA) and analyze its computational performance for large geospatial datasets. Our...- publication PDF
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Modeling the winter heat conduction through the sea ice system during MOSAiC
Models struggle to accurately simulate observed sea ice thickness changes, which could be partially due to inadequate representation of thermodynamic processes. We analyzed co-...- publication PDF
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Vegetation greening mitigates the impacts of increasing extreme rainfall on...
The number and magnitude of extreme rainfall events are projected to increase throughout the global land surfaceProjected declines in event‐based runoff ratio are found...- publication PDF
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Building community informed and driven data services at the National Center...
At the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), being able to enable and facilitate scientific progress by providing advanced computing capabilities has been a key focus...- publication PDF
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Modeling bubbles and dissolved gases in the ocean
We report on the development of a bubble concentration model and a dissolved gas concentration model for the oceanic boundary layer. The bubble model solves a set of...- publication PDF
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Midlatitude cyclone compositing to constrain climate model behavior using...
Identical composite analysis of midlatitude cyclones over oceanic regions has been carried out on both output from the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model, version 3 (CAM3) and...- publication PDF
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A comparison of methods used to populate neighborhood-based contingency...
As high-resolution numerical weather prediction models are now commonplace, "neighborhood'' verification metrics are regularly employed to evaluate forecast quality. These...- publication PDF
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Longitudinal variations of thermospheric composition at the solstices
O/N2, measured by the Global Ultraviolet Imager on board the Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics Dynamics satellite, has large longitudinal variations at the...- publication PDF
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Review article: Observations for high-impact weather and their use in verification
Verification of forecasts and warnings of high-impact weather is needed by the meteorological centres, but how to perform it still presents many open questions, starting from...- publication PDF
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The thermoinsulation effect of snow cover within a climate model
We use a state of the art climate model (CAM3-CLM3) to investigate the sensitivity of surface climate and land surface processes to treatments of snow thermal conductivity. In...- publication PDF
